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Practical Python Programming for IoT
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Practical Python Programming for IoT

by Gary Smart
November 2020
Intermediate to advanced
516 pages
11h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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Assessments

Chapter 1

  1. To keep your project-specific Python packages and dependencies isolated from other projects and the system-level Python packages.
  2. No. You can always regenerate a virtual environment and reinstall packages.
  3. To keep a list of all the Python packages (and versions) that your Python projects rely on. Having a maintained requirements.txt file allows you to reinstall all packages easily with the command pip install -r requirements.txt.
  4. Make sure you are using the absolute path to the Python interpreter that is in the bin folder of your virtual environment.
  5. It activates a virtual environment so that all users of Python and pip are sandboxed to the virtual environment.
  6. deactivate. If you type exit (and we all do it sometimes!), ...
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ISBN: 9781838982461